'Rental, tariff hike will remove undue congestion'
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Sat Jan 25 00:14:32 2003
Name:ways2gain.com
Email:ways2gain@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:I support the rise of Rentals and also Tariffs ? This should
make the service better and lasting too. It will remove undue
congestion. It will also lower useless usage. Also those who have
telephones for the heck of having it and use barely the 75 free calls
offered each month will then do away with Phones. Else all telecom cos
would go into major losses. Mark my words and dont say I dint say so.
Sat Jan 25 10:24:18 2003
Name:KAMAL
Email:chauhan_kk@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:No, not at all. In today's world when you are decreasing the
prices of mobile tariffs, how can you snatch basic telephone from a
poor. We are talking phones to everyone, how is it possible even to
think the hike in basic telephone rates. Making accessories cheap and
basic needs costly. Is it sensible?
Sat Jan 25 10:24:59 2003
Name:Mrinal Chandra
Email:concor_99@hotmail.com
Your Views:s: Increasing the tariffs for the fixed-line telephones will
lead to more of the public moving towards mobile phones and with the
mobile phone tariffs expected to fall to unprecedented lows, the Telecom
Regulatory Authority is making a big mistake if they are considering
increasing the tariffs.
Sat Jan 25 10:27:09 2003
Name:anita
Email:anisalim@rediff.com
Your Views:s: Instead of increasing the phone rentals,if the free calls
given to govt.officials are withdrawn, telephone dept.'s revenue will
increase.
Sat Jan 25 10:27:56 2003
Name:parikh mitesh
Email:parikh_mitesh@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s: why goverment should rise the price of land line phone they
are reducing the price of mobile phone and rise in land line phone
goverment will forcefully shiffted to all user to mobile phone
Sat Jan 25 10:28:00 2003
Name:M.Senthil Kumar
Email:yoursenthil2000@yahoo.com
Your Views:s: sir, yes i do believe and hope that it must be increased but
could be of very small margin because most of the cell users have cell
for incoming so the cell operators will get a major share than they
spend on the outgoing calls of 1.20 rupees to DOT .i think every fixed
line user will look at this appeal.
Sat Jan 25 10:28:19 2003
Name:atul chhabra
Email:atulchhabra@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s: If they rise, it will be the result of cartelisation which
has occured in cellular industry for taking consumer on a ride in a garb
of survival of the industry. This situation again brings into the
forefront of need of effective MRTP laws in thye country to prevent such
catrel formation either in Telecom or even in cement and ohteer
industries Today increase in price will show how gaps exist in the
indian legal system and need for effective laws which protect the
consumer intrest
Sat Jan 25 10:28:39 2003
Name:P.A.Kamath
Email:pak65@indiatimes.com
Your Views:s: NO. Rather, they should look at reducing the 3 min. pulse so
that customers are encouraged to make more calls. In many developed
countries, gulf countries, local calls are not billed at all!! If MTNL
does this hike, people will look for better options like Hughes ,
Reliance WLL etc.
Sat Jan 25 10:29:12 2003
Name:nitesh jain
Email:nitesh_30@yahoo.com
Your Views:s: It is not justified with land line user to increase the cost
of calls or montly traiff.The war is in between mobile operator and CDMA
operator. so its not a wise thing to include the land line user this
war....
Sat Jan 25 10:29:12 2003
Name:Ravi
Email:rr@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:The authorities can go ahead and raise the phone rates. And
in few days time they will find that customers are switching en masse to
the private operators or buying mobile phones !. Good way to increase
mobile consumers !!
Sat Jan 25 10:29:18 2003
Name:S. K. Bhaduri
Email:skbhaduri@vsnl.net
Your Views:s:The decision to hike the tarrif of basic telephone is quite
disheartening, as there are certainly much larger number of basic
telephone users all over the country than mobile users and this is
certainly going to affect a much larger section of the society.
Additionally, this will also deter usage of internet by individuals
because of the high telephone call casts they will have to pay, in
addition to the internet access charge.
Sat Jan 25 10:29:33 2003
Name:Mani
Email:m_k_sinha@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:OF COURSE NOT.
Sat Jan 25 10:30:32 2003
Name:Raghu N Swamy
Email:raghu.n@riskxpress.nt
Your Views:s:Now this is the last nail in the coffin...Phone is not a
luxury but a necessary in every home...They do not think twice
before doing such a thing but would look the other way at the expenses
of politicians and that too from the taxpayer's money... they
should be be hanged... Till the bunch of jokers like these r ruling this
country we have no future
Sat Jan 25 10:30:47 2003
Name:pradeep shete
Email:pradeepshete@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:It is not necessary to hike the prices, rather the prices
should be decreased. Monthly fixed charges should be reduced , and bills
can be charged on the basis of number of calls. If charges are hiked,
many of the customers will try to swich to other services, because they
will effectively cheaper than fixed lines ( considering the servies
etc). In other advanced countries these services are at minimum or
negligible cost. To boost up the basic communication between the people
measures should be taken to increase the number of customer base, which
will increase revenue. This will a short term remedy to increase revenue
but effectively it will be costly.
Sat Jan 25 10:30:48 2003
Name:Rachnsingh
Email:rac_hnasingh@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:the hiking is totally injustified as the services for the
land lines are attrociusly poor in places like ramprasth, suryanagar,
chandernagar the phones remain down for several days as wires are old
and no maintenance at several places wirinfg is 20 years old there shold
be an automatic reduction in rent for the period when the phone is down
Sat Jan 25 10:30:56 2003
Name:C
Email:cnair_in@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Recently, I read a letter written to the Editor of Times of
India requesting for a slash in Landline rentals and on the very next
day, the main headline is for hike a rentals as well as withdrawal of
free calls. Any hike in rentals will badly effect the common man as he
is not benefitted by reducing the STD rates of Fixed line providers or
Cellular companies.
Sat Jan 25 10:32:12 2003
Name:Parikh.Tejas.N.
Email:narenchemicals@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:In view the Goverment should not hike the price of telephone.
Insted of reducing the price of landline phone they r hiking it. By this
way the goverment is trying to help the celuler operatore.
Sat Jan 25 10:33:49 2003
Name:V.K.SATHIYA NARAYANAN
Email:sathiya7@vsnl.net
Your Views:s:The fised-line tarrif is increased just to make up the
reduced profits in mobile based sevices. Actually, the fixed line
charges should not be increased.Especially yhe rent for the phone.
Sat Jan 25 10:33:58 2003
Name:Viplav Kambli
Email:viplav76@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:A progressive country should try & make basic communication
(in basic telphone services) free & gradually enhance revenues by
promoting long distance communication, which should not be a problem in
our huge coutry. Whats happening is simply ridiculous. Its time, we
people unite. Alternatively they should allow an absolute free regime
and allow more players. the Consumer should be the winner in the end at
any cost.
Sat Jan 25 10:34:38 2003
Name:Gaurav
Email:gauravgoel001@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:I am completly against raising triff of basic telephony in
india it would amount to killing of telocom revulution whihc is about to
happen in India. Even In US Local calls are completly free, there is no
logic that Regulator should increase the triff its should be left on the
induvisual player to decide on teriffs if he increases it he would bear
the risk of lossing number of customers .there is no logic TRAI should
step in to increase triffs.Indian Phone market is still in its infancy
where it needs to increse teledensity to multifold to reach out to
common masse.Communication cost in India is still high compared to any
other Developed nation even China. this is already agaginst our
deveolpment .
Sat Jan 25 10:34:57 2003
Name:P.Shankar
Email:pshankar100@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:In USA local calls are free while we are debating on increase
in charges.
Sat Jan 25 10:35:00 2003
Name:Vasudevan
Email:vkuthully@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:Reduce rental charges. Increase call charges(even you can
double)
Sat Jan 25 10:36:40 2003
Name:Susheel
Email:ahuh@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:they should let people choose their schemes on a higher
rentals, lower charges regime: if rent is 1500 charge should be 50ps/3
mins if rent is 1000 charge should be 80ps/3 mins if rent is 600 charge
should be 1.00/3 mins if rent is 300 charge should be 1.25/3 mins
(charges- bi monthly)
Sat Jan 25 10:37:19 2003
Name:santosh
Email:santosh10@lycos.com
Your Views:s:Earlier also the tariff was increased and made 500 Rs. and
still it is further going up which is not affordable to middle class
people like us. Even it is likely to increase ,the total no. of free
calls should not be reduced.
Sat Jan 25 10:37:34 2003
Name:raju
Email:rajsraju@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:i dont understand why we shall be paying rentals. increase
the basic calls cost and let it be cost per call basis.
Sat Jan 25 10:37:50 2003
Name:Sachin Miniyar
Email:miniyarsachin@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:I read that landline phones are subsidised and to reduce the
cost of the government, the tariffs will have to be hiked. But I feel
that instead of hiking the tariffs for phone, why does government cut
down the cost incurred on each of the members of the Lok Sabha. I think
if they reduce the security guards, servants, vehicles provided, phones
provided, other misc cost for each minister and apply the same to each
government official, they will save far more than what they can get from
the hiking charges.
Sat Jan 25 10:37:56 2003
Name:Madhusoodhanan Nair
Email:m_nair55555@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:This is totally injustice to the common man. Majority of the
landline users are middle class people, for them the present tariff is
somehow bearable.But with the pressure arising from cell war made a
burden on common man. The cell companies are gradually increasing thier
rates instead of reducing .
Sat Jan 25 10:38:11 2003
Name:HARSHAL RAUT
Email:harshal@efabrico.com
Your Views:s:No its not fair to increase the monthly rentals and drop
three minutes call to 2 minutes.
Sat Jan 25 10:38:23 2003
Name:Ravi
Email:silva@indiatimes.com
Your Views:s:Increase? what nonsence!. TRAI should know millions of middle
class people use the telephone and how can they afford to pay the
increase besides Govt's increase to all other commoditeies. TRAI should
not increase the rates and should keep public happy.
Sat Jan 25 10:38:24 2003
Name:rohan
Email:rjghalsasi@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:No, basic tarrif should not be increased on flat basis. 80%
of fixed line users normally do not dial to any cellular number, so they
should not be burdened with access charges.
Sat Jan 25 10:38:37 2003
Name:sarath babu
Email:sarathsilicon@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Basic Phone rates should not be increased. If NLD and ILD
calls are subsidising local calls, so be it. The people who make these
long distance calls belong to rich segment and should not mind paying
more. Regarding interconnection charges people who use cell phone have
to pay local charges in addition to airtime as they are using the
facility. Similarly basic phone users also should pay a small fees for
using cell network. That's fair.
Sat Jan 25 10:39:19 2003
Name:JS Sondhi
Email:sondhijs@satyam.net.in
Your Views:s:NO and big No make it cheaper so that MORE USAGE MORE REVENUE
Sat Jan 25 10:39:24 2003
Name:Basavaraj
Email:basavaraj_garag@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Why the fixed line telephone charges are to be hiked ?.This
is very unfair to protect the interests of of the WLL/Mobile providers.
Sat Jan 25 10:39:37 2003
Name:Vikalp
Email:vikalp@mail.com
Your Views:s:Telephone rates are already high enough. Basic operators are
enjoying monopoly. Besides, basic operators are charging rents as per
the capacity of exchange. Which seems improper when distances have
become narrow. For example, I'm living in city area and paying Rs. 500
as fixed rental, getting 75 so called 'Free' calls. Bus is I count
accumulated cost, I am paying Rs 6.66 per 'free' call. While minimum
rent is Rs. 75 so the person living in nearer village would pay Rs. 1
for free call. These price discrimination should be abolished.
Sat Jan 25 10:39:57 2003
Name:Vikalp
Email:vikalp@mail.com
Your Views:s:Telephone rates are already high enough. Basic operators are
enjoying monopoly. Besides, basic operators are charging rents as per
the capacity of exchange. Which seems improper when distances have
become narrow. For example, I'm living in city area and paying Rs. 500
as fixed rental, getting 75 so called 'Free' calls. Bus is I count
accumulated cost, I am paying Rs 6.66 per 'free' call. While minimum
rent is Rs. 75 so the person living in nearer village would pay Rs. 1
for free call. These price discrimination should be abolished.
Sat Jan 25 10:40:09 2003
Name:Arun
Email:reach_arun@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:We are talking of developing our nation. The Simple thing to
make india on the world map is with good broad band connection and with
cheaper cost. Instead of reducing the cost, the regulatory is instead
increasing the cost. second point is that is it because of Reliance
mobile the rates are increased to increase the use of reliance mobile.
In my opinion the rates should be still reduced.
Sat Jan 25 10:40:18 2003
Name:satyan kachroo
Email:satyan_kachroo@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:I Thought TRAI was supposed to think of consumers benefit,
but instead the tariff for all fixed as well as cellular has increased
so where is the benefit to the consumer!!!!!!!
Sat Jan 25 10:40:21 2003
Name:B.K.Hari Sree Rama
Email:haisreeram@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Its unwise to think of hiking fixed-line charges.. Even with
the introduction of Reliance Infocomm limited mobility services, still
the tariff proposed by Reliance (i.e., Rs.600 per month) is not in the
reach of a middle class man in India. Still a common man cannot reach
for either a mobile or WLL keeping in the view of the initial investment
he has to make for purchasing the handset.. In this perview, to
withstand the competition, fixed-line charges should be made competitive
to mobile charges so that more and more people go in for fixed-line
Sat Jan 25 10:40:23 2003
Name:Rajeev
Email:rajeevcp2@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:There is no justification for hiking telephone charges. I
think it is better to use Cell phone instead of this old telephones. I
also plannint to cut the old telephone line within a day or two. I have
a cell phone. That is cheaper than MTNL telephone.
Sat Jan 25 10:40:25 2003
Name:Vikalp
Email:vikalp@mail.com
Your Views:s:Telephone rates are already high enough. Basic operators are
enjoying monopoly. Besides, basic operators are charging rents as per
the capacity of exchange. Which seems improper when distances have
become narrow. For example, I'm living in city area and paying Rs. 500
as fixed rental, getting 75 so called 'Free' calls. Bus is I count
accumulated cost, I am paying Rs 6.66 per 'free' call. While minimum
rent is Rs. 75 so the person living in nearer village would pay Rs. 1
for free call. These price discrimination should be abolished.
Sat Jan 25 10:40:51 2003
Name:vijay g salian
Email:vijay_salian1@rediff.com
Your Views:s:WE ARE WAITING RENTAL CHARGE REDUCING OTHER VAIS THORUH YOUR
TELPHONE.ALLREADY RENTAL CHARGE HIGH.AND WE ARE READY TO BUY MOBILE.
MOBILE PHONE ARE CHIPPER THAN TELEPHONE IN FUTURE
Sat Jan 25 10:41:57 2003
Name:Akshay Sheth
Email:akshays@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Yes. If tarrifs should be hiked then it should be STD
charges. Local calls deserve to be made cheaper - local calls increase
in charges benefit telecom companys revenues but hurt the common man and
small local business groups adversaly. Akshay
Sat Jan 25 10:42:01 2003
Name:Senthil Kumar
Email:kum_sen78@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:It is highly disgusting to note that the TRAI is going to
raise the tariff for the fixed phones.Just because the private cell
operators slashing the rates does not warrant any such One sided move
from the TRAI.People from Rurarl area will definitely be affected with
this.
Sat Jan 25 10:42:04 2003
Name:Aijaz Ashraf
Email:aijazashraf@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Mobile is still concentrated in cities and is yet to attain
the level of penetration and reach of land line phones. There is no
justification inincreasing tariff of land line to feed mobile phones. It
will definitely hurt common man and will effect business.
Sat Jan 25 10:42:10 2003
Name:Salil Keshkamat
Email:ksalil@goatelecom.com
Your Views:s:No!! This hike is unjustifiable. It is for common people.
Common man has to pay for the rich (cell phone users and NRI- ISD calls)
to enjoy cheap calls. Burdening the weak is unfair. High rates will also
affect spread of the medium specially when the phone density in the
country is so low.
Sat Jan 25 10:42:21 2003
Name:sanjay
Email:sanjumundra@yahoo.co.uk
Your Views:s:Fixed line phone tarrif should not hike. It will directly hit
the middle class.
Sat Jan 25 10:42:33 2003
Name:Tarak Shah
Email:tktarak@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:In view of business competition with Mobile operator, the
tarrif should be maintained at the existing level instead of increasing
it. Otherwise, there will be sharp fall in subscribers for land line and
increase in mobile holders. Infact, nowadays numbers of mobile holders
are constantly increasing. The TRAI should take such measures, which can
increase the land line subscribers. Tarak
Sat Jan 25 10:42:40 2003
Name:Sunil
Email:sunil@kandlikar.com
Your Views:s:We are ready to pay economical charges for services. The
rates should factor in investments but should not seek to protect status
quos, including protection of past investments. Meaning, the economic
benefits of new technologies should be for the customer. On the other
hand, if the service provider cannot meet their reasonable costs
(including a return on investment), we will not get service in the long
term. I am agreeable for higher 'fixed' tarriff and lower usage tarriff,
because that is the nature of costs in the telecom industry. The issue
of prices is linked to competition too....the regulation should
encourage competition and regulated pricing should attract new players
to invest. The plan to increase the usage 'call' charges is not
good...that will be a dampner in expansion of the markets.
Sat Jan 25 10:42:50 2003
Name:Rakesh Varma
Email:varmarakesh@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:No Any hike is not justified as it would effect millins of
middle class people.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:06 2003
Name:ansari naved
Email:naved500@hotmail.com
Your Views:s:No there should not be any increase in tariff of fixed line
telephone. MTNL is lifeline of mumbai for which public heavily depend on
it,they should provide resistance to them by giving more & more
facilities and providing more free outgoing calls.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:19 2003
Name:Ramankutty
Email:psramankutty@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:The tariff should not be hiked just to provide high profit to
the telecom companies. These companies have been charging at a very high
rate all these time and exploiting the subscribers. The shadow fight
between various operators is only a game to convince the people of
"necessxity to hike the tariff". The people of India have paid enough to
the telecom operators. The TRAI should protect the people, not the
interest of greedy companies.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:31 2003
Name:vilas
Email:villu4u@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:It shouldnt be hiked instead shoiuld be reduced to decent
living,like the one which are offered in foreign countries. It is
another kind of burden to the actual users like the one example of hike
in fuel rate which is always growing. Nevertheless should grab the
market by reducing instead of pushing up.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:44 2003
Name:Sandip Adani
Email:sandipaaa@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:The corporate rivalrly in telecommunication will give
immediate benefit to the users but in the long term the logocal loosers
will only be USERS.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:45 2003
Name:L. P. Surana
Email:surana@cal2.vsnl.net.in
Your Views:s:There must not be any incease in the land line phone tarrif.
In fact, the duration of call should be increased to a minimum of 7
minutes. I really do not still understand why there should at all be a
consideration for increase in the land line phone tarrif when there is
many many fold increase in the number of users. The Govt. should further
improve upon the services. At the existent level of tarrif the P & T
Department should make enormous profit. If it does not, then there must
be something wrong somewhere else and that shouls be thoroughly
examined.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:49 2003
Name:suryaprakash
Email:suryaprakash26@yahoo.com
Your Views:s:Now almost everyone has got a fixed-line in their home owing
to the steps taken by the govt. during the 80's. Makes easier for people
to keep in touch with their dear ones. And now the idea of decreasing
the duration of the local is a big blow. On the surface it looks as if
the bill might get doubled. With advancement in telecom sector, probably
we should be aiming at reducing the cost of the local calls further (In
the U.S. local calls within the circle are free). Passing the burden to
the fixed-line user is not justified.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:53 2003
Name:JP Singhal
Email:singhaljp@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:It should be decrease to promote more useage. Communication
and power (Electricity) are the most important pillars for the industry
based economy and in the progress of a country. Otherwise, we have to be
satisfied with agriculture based economy.
Sat Jan 25 10:43:56 2003
Name:A.S.Devarajan
Email:asdrajan@vsnl.com
Your Views:s:There should not be any increase in tariff.There should be
drastic reduction in rentals. Otherwise most of them will surrender the
line phone and go for cell phone.There will be further reduction in
revenue.
Sat Jan 25 10:44:14 2003
Name:Parag Mehta
Email:accessco@vsnl.com
Your Views:s:I think so they must reduce the rates of the Phone Rental &
as well as the calling charges.
Sat Jan 25 10:44:54 2003
Name:RAJENDRA LAXMAN SATHE
Email:rajendra_sathe@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:There should not be increase in the tariff as it is
unjustified.
Sat Jan 25 10:44:56 2003
Name:PARIKH MITESH
Email:parikh_mitesh@lycosasia.com
Your Views:s:MTNL IS ONLY ONE TELEPHONE OPERATING COMPANY THATS WHY THEY
ARE CHARGING AS THEY REQUIRE YOU SHOULD NOT RUN THE BUSINESS BECAUSE ALL
OTHER MOBILE COMP REDUCER THE RATE AND YOU ARE RISING THE RATE
Sat Jan 25 10:45:18 2003
Name:UDAY KUMAR K.BHATT
Email:udaybhatt16@rediffmail.com
Your Views:s:Absolutly NO. they are punishing local phone owners to
benefit cell opretors This is rubbish.
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